Scots Collection (#22)

Cairo, Egypt - a Royal visit
Cairo, Egypt - a visit from Princess Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood - here she meets the families of serving members of the Royals Scots Guards regiment, stationed in Egypt at this time

Emigrants to Canada 1888
Emigrants on a Canadian Pacific train: Scots on the left, Irish on the right

Rizzio Plays Lute
DAVID RIZZIO Italian musician. Favourite & foreign secretary of Mary Queen of Scots. He arranged her marriage with Darnley

Zulu war evacuation. The 21st Royal Scots Fusiliers
Scottish bagpipers in kilts and playing the pipes, lead the troops over a river as they leave Zululand. Date: 1879

The Zulu war. The transport steamer City of Paris
The transport steamer, City of Paris, striking on the Roman Rocks, False Bay, Cape of Good Hope, March 21st 1879. The steamer, transporting British reinforcements, the Royal Scots Fusiliers

Scottish Fishwives
A jolly group of Scottish fishwives and some of their menfolk. One of the women plays the bagpipes

Lassie Tramples Washing
It is the firm belief of postcard makers that the Scots are too canny to waste money on a washing machine - instead they trample the washing, the way the French do grapes

Mary Q of Scots / Darnley
MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS with her husband, Henry Stewart, Lord Darnley (1545-67)

JAMES I of England and VI of Scotland : his claim to the English throne is via his mother, Mary queen of Scots

Burns / Bannockburn March
ROBERT BRUCEs MARCH TO BANNOCKBURN Scots wha hae wi Wallace bled.Lay the proud usurpers low! Tyrants fall in every foe!

Mary Q Scots Escapes
Mary Queen of Scots escapes from Loch Leven Castle in a rowing boat

Scots Marketpeople
A Scotch Market-Woman and Children - all three carrying baskets of produce while mama carries a huge pot of milk, probably

Mary Qos Surrenders
Mary Queen of Scots surrenders to Kirkcaldy of Grange after her husband Bothwells flight, his forces dispersed by lord Hume and the confederate barons

Murder of Rizzio 1566
David Rizzio, the Italian secretary of Mary Queen of Scots, is murdered by Marys husband Henry and his group of conspirators, who stab him sixty times

Mary Qos and Darnley
MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS with Henry Stuart, lord Darnley, her cousin and husband, in 1565 : though she bore him a son (the future James I) she was disgusted by his debauchery

Mary, Queen of Scots / Son
MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS with her son (later James VI of Scotland and James I of England)

Battle of Dunbar / Smith
Cromwell defeats the Scots at DUNBAR

Mary, Queen of Scotland
Mary, Queen of Scots

6th Earl Shrewsbury
GEORGE TALBOT 6TH EARL OF SHREWSBURY Entrusted by Queen Elizabeth with custody of Mary, Queen of Scots

Lord Darnley / Armytage
HENRY STEWART, LORD DARNLEY Cousin and second of the three husbands of Mary Queen of Scots (m1565); father of James I of England

King Alexander II of Scotland (1198-1249) (reigned from 1214)

Queen of Scots Escapes
Mary Queen of Scots escapes from Loch Leven Castle (vignette version)

Siege of Sidney Street
Various scenes from the Siege of Sidney Street

Battle of Standard / 1138
BATTLE OF STANDARD Walter Lespec vows to defeat Scots

Sweyn Tricked by Scots
The Scots drug and then attack their Viking invaders. The Viking leader Sweyn of Norway, however, escapes thanks to his two attendants

Mary / Scots / Letter
A letter from Mary Queen of Scots - she signs herself Marie

A Captured Deserter
A captured deserter led through the streets

Ww1 Irish & Scots
Three soldiers - one Irish, the other two Scots (one has a bagpipe) during World War One

Last of the Picts
A legend from Galloway tells how the last Pict refuses to divulge to the conquering Scots the secret of how to make heather-ale. The secret is lost

Lord Darnley / Robinson
HENRY STEWART, LORD DARNLEY Cousin and second of the three husbands of Mary Queen of Scots (m1565); father of James I of England

Galgacus Addresses Army
Galgacus, or Calgacus, Caledonian Chief of the tribes of North Britain, addresses his army before facing the Romans under Agricola at the Battle of Mons Graupius

Mary Queen of Scots
MARY, queen of France, later of Scotland with her autograph

Hartley as Mary Qo Scots
ELIZABETH HARTLEY, actress, striking a dramatic pose as Mary Queen of Scots in John Bankss periodically revived play The Albion Queens

Dog with Slipper / Aldin
A white Scots Terrier with a black slipper or shoe

Hadrians Wall Built 122
The Roman Emperor Hadrian supervising the construction of Hadrians Wall. Running from the Solway to the Tyne, it was built to exclude the Picts (Scots)

Wallace Leads Scots / 1303
William Wallace leads the Scots against the English

Scots / Brits in Battle
King David of Scotland in battle at Nevilles Cross, Newcastle on Tyne against Philippa of Hainault, where he is defeated

Queen of Scots / Chastelrd
Mary Queen of Scots with Chastelard, who is playing music to her

Queen of Scots Abdicates
Mary Queen of Scots is compelled to sign her abdication in Loch Leven Castle

Mary Stuart / Quinct
Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots

Royalists attack Jacobites at Glen Shiel, Scotland
Scottish Jacobites are attacked by Royalists at the Battle of Glenshiel (Glen Shiel), in the western highlands of Scotland. The Royalists won

John Napier, Scottish mathematician
John Napier, 8th Laird of Merchiston, Scottish mathematician, physicist, astronomer and astrologer, inventor of logarithms

Mary, Queen of Scots, with Lord Darnley
Mary, Queen of Scotland, with Lord Darnley -- they married in 1565

Scots Ride to Flodden
Scottish army rides out of Edinburgh to fight the English at Flodden

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